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General Pipeline System setup information 
Pipeline system architecture
Pipeline is a unique network attached encoder system that can be used in a variety of capture and playout workflows. Being network attached there are several architectural constrains that need to be understood in order to configure an efficient and reliable Pipeline system. Pipeline system capture workflows consists oftaking baseband HD/SD-SDI inputs, compressing it, creating a file with the compressed data and delivering the completed file to a folder location. The Pipeline system will consists of one or more Pipeline network attached encoder devices connected via CAT6 Ethernet to a Pipeline host computer. Pipeline network attached encoder devices should be connected direct via CAT6 Ethernet to a Pipelinehost computer or via an Enterprise class, layer 2, fully non-blocking professional quality Ethernet switch.

Pipeline System
Because of Pipeline’s unique network attached architecture it is important to understand each component of a Pipeline system in order to create a system that will meet the needs of your workflow. A Pipeline System consists of one or more Pipeline devices (Single, Quad or HDDual) and a Pipeline host computer (Mac or Windows PC) connected together via Ethernet wiring.

The key components of a Pipeline System are the Pipeline device hardware, Pipeline network, the Pipeline host hardware, the Pipeline application software and the Pipeline media disk storage systems. Each of these components is described below.

Pipeline device hardware
Pipeline device hardware haveone to four channels each (single channel, Quad or HD Dual) with SDI I/O for capture and play out. The SDI connectors take baseband SD/HD-SDI signals as input, compress them into one of many supported formats and stream the compress data (video, audio and control data) out their respective Ethernet ports using Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP). Each Pipeline channel’s RTSP stream containsvideo, audio and application/control data in RTP transport packets. These Pipeline channel streams are consumed by Pipeline application software running on a Pipeline host computer. The

General Pipeline System setup information

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Pipeline application software will wrap each RTSP stream into the appropriate file wrapper and deliver these files to their respective mediastorage locations.

Pipeline host and Pipeline application software
The Pipeline host computer is primarily responsible for taking one or more Pipeline channel’s RTSP streams via Ethernet, wrapping them in the appropriate format and writing the resulting file to the selected media destination. A Pipeline host computer can control multiple Pipeline channels concurrently. Use this document tounderstand how to configure a Pipeline System to meet your particular needs. Pipeline software applications perform many tasks. These task range from scheduled capture and play out, log/capture from tape sources, manual and automated capture from live sources and print to tape/play out functions. There are five components to consider when choosing the Pipeline host system.      CPU cores and speedDisk storage systems (both for the media destination and for disk buffering) Networks connection System RAM System Video Card

Use the system descriptions, recommended systems chart, network and storage sections to configure your Pipeline host system.

Pipeline network
For best results Pipeline device hardware should be connected direct to a Pipeline host computer or via a single enterpriseclass, fully non-blocking professional quality Ethernet switch via CAT6 Ethernet cabling. Multiple hops via routers and switches increase the risk that video frames will not be processed in a timely manner resulting in lost frames. It is highly recommended that the Pipeline host’s network adapter be based on Intel Gigabit.  Recommended network adapters o Intel Gigabit controller based cards...